Path to Citizenship Public Assembly draws crowd in Reno

2:45 PM,
Jun. 6, 2013

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,

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Zachary F. Volkert

Two empty chairs were behind Theresa Navarro as she took the stage at the Path to Citizenship Public Assembly on Wednesday evening in Reno.

U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City, and U.S. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., were invited to the event but weren't present. Amodei said the immigration event conflicted with one for a scholarship in his late mother's name, and Heller sent a regional representative.

A representative for Heller declined to specify what obligation conflicted with the event but assured that Heller supports immigration reform. ...